Alistair, If you have a look in the download bundle for MacVim you will see a command line tool that is distributed with it called mvim.
Put mvim in a standard location that is on your PATH, on the mac a good default location is /usr/local/bin (chosen to work with as many flavours of the Mac OS as possible, including the latest). mvim helps the MacVim binary get called in a completely compatible way with the unix counterpart such that you can then rely on the documentation, including Tony’s suggestions below. Thanks, Adam. On 23 Jan 2016, at 23:44, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: I assume that by “window” you mean “Vim instance”, since in Vim parlance there may be one or more (plit) windows within a tab but not the opposite. There are also one or more tabs (or tab pages) in one “Vim screen” (or Vim instance) but not the opposite. I don't run a Mac, but in general to start Vim with three tab pages, one file in each, you would invoke it as vim -p file1.ext file2.ext file3.ext This should work with any "vim flavour" such as vim, gvim, MacVim, etc. You may want to vary it according to the peculiarities of MacOsX. See ":help -p" To open the file at a specific line, I expect that prefixing the filename with +123 (for line 123), followed by a space, should work, but I haven't yet tested it: so to open several files, each in its tab, and each at a specific line, you could do vim -p +123 file1.ext +456 file2.txt +789 file3.txt but I haven't tested it. See ":help +cmd" In general, if you set the 'viminfo' option correctly, Vim will remember where the cursor was in a given file when it was last used, and with the proper autocommand (as in $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc.example.vim lines 73-79, so if you source that from your vimrc you've got it) the file will be reopened at that same position (or at line 1 if no position was remembered for the file). Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_mac" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_mac" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
